AT MOON LAKE LODGE IN SARATOGA, NEW YORK. HE BECAME ANGRY WHEN A...

1853, at Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga, New York. He became angry when a diner

complained that his French fries were too thick, so he sliced the potatoes as thinly as

possible, making them too thin and crisp to eat with a fork. The diner loved them, and potato

chips were born. In 1860, Chef Crum opened his own restaurant and offered a basket of

potato chips on every table.

Joe “Spud” Murphy and Seamus Burke produced the world’s first seasoned crisps, cheese &

onion and salt & vinegar chips, in the 1950s in Ireland. In the United Kingdom and Ireland,

crisps are what we, in the United States, call potato chips, while their chips refer to our

French fries. Ketchup–flavored chips are popular in the Middle East and Canada. Seaweed–

flavored chips are popular in Asia, and chicken– flavored chips are popular in Mexico. Other

flavors from around the world include: paprika, pickled onions, béarnaise, meat pie, chili

crab, salmon teriyaki, borscht, Caesar salad, roasted sausage, firecracker lobster, roast ox,

haggis and black pepper, olive, and spaghetti.

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Question 25.

The word “them” in the passage refers to ______.

A. potatoes

B. colonists

C. conquistadors

D. Indians

Question 26.

What happened in the 1950s?

A. The world’s first French fries were produced

B. The world’s first seasoned potato chips were produced.

C. The world’s first potato chips were produced.

D. The world’s first seasoned French fries were produced.

Question 27.

Which of the following is a true statement?

A. Different flavored potato chips are popular in different parts of the world.

B. Potato chips are only popular in America.

C. Ketchup–flavored potato chips are most popular in America.

D. Potato chips are not really eaten very much in Asia.

Question 28.

Potato chips are called _____ in the United Kingdom.

A. fries

B. crisps

C. lobsters

D. potatoes

Question 29.

What question is answered in the second paragraph?

A. Who invented the potato chip?

B. How many pounds of potatoes are eaten per person in America each year?

C. When were salt & vinegar chips invented?

D. Who served French fries in the White House?

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose

underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following

questions.

Question 30.

A. heritage B. package

C. passage

D. teenage

Question 31.

A. remained B. increased

C. described

D. amazed

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that

needs correction in each of the following questions.

Question 32.

My uncle has gone to Nha Trang on vacation, but I wish he is here so that he

could help me repair my bicycle.

A. could help

B. has gone

C. he is

D. on vacation

Question 33.

Air pollution, together with littering, are causing many problems in our large,

industrial cities today.

A. with

B. in

C. are

D. industrial

Question 34.

Leonardo is often thought of primarily as an artist, and with masterclasses

such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa to his credit, his place in art history is assured.

A. masterclasses

B. thought of

C. place

D. to his credit

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to

each of the following questions.

Question 35.

Although we had told them not to keep us waiting, they made no _____ to

speed up deliveries.

A. comment

B. action

C. attempt

D. progress

Question 36.

You really dropped _____ the other day when you told Brian you’d seen his

wife at the cinema. He thought she was at her mother’s.

A. a plank

B. a log

C. a brick

D. a stone

Question 37. I can’t possibly lend you any more money; it is quite out of the _____.

A. place

B. question

C. order

D. practice

Question 38.

When a fire broke out in the Louvre, at least twenty ______ paintings were

destroyed, including two by Van Gogh.

A. worthy

B. priceless

C. worthless

D. valueless

Question 39.

_____only in the Andes, the plant is used by local people to treat skin diseases.

A. Finding

B. Found

C. Having found

D. Founded

Question 40.

If the world’s tropical forests continue to disappear at their present rate, many

animal species _____ extinct.

A. would become B. would have become

C. became

D. will become

Question 41. Half the way of the trip, we stopped _____ and let the others _____ up with us.

A. to rest/catch

B. resting/catch

C. resting/to catch D. to rest/to catch

Question 42.

______ get older, the games they play become increasingly complex.

A. For children to B. Children, when

C. Although children

D. As children

Question 43.

My mother _____ strawberries for years but she has never had such a good

crop before.

A. had grown

B. is growing

C. grew

D. has been growing

Question 44.

Your mother _____ read a bit of a letter you received because she opened it

without looking at the name on the envelope.

A. silently

B. intentionally

C. deliberately

D. accidentally

Question 45.

It was not until the end of the nineteenth century ______.

A. did plant breeding become a scientific discipline

B. that plant breeding became a scientific discipline

C. that a scientific discipline was plant breeding

D. did a scientific discipline become plant breeding

Question 46.

“Did you have ______ nice holiday?” – “Yes, it was ______ best holiday I

have ever had.”

A. a – the

B. the – the

C. the – a

D. a – a

Question 47.

The equator is an ______ line that divides the Earth into two.

A. imaginable

B. imaginary

C. imagination

D. imaginative

Question 48. This survey is to find out the young people’s attitudes _______ love.

A. into

B. with

C. for

D. toward

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best

combines each pair of sentences in the following questions

Question 49.

They finished one project. They started working on the next right away.

A. Had they finished one project, they would have started working on the next.

B. Only if they had finished one project did they start working on the next.

C. Hardly had they finished one project when they started working on the next.

D. Not until did they start working on the next project when they finished one.

Question 50.

Having been informed of her critical condition, he decided not to tell her his

financial problem.

A. He told her about his money issue because he was in critical condition.

B. He did not mention his financial problem as he was aware of her critical condition.

C. Someone informed her that he was having a financial problem when she was in critical

condition.

D. Despite knowing her critical condition, he talked about his financial problem.